Sunday, 7 April 2019

Sunday, 30 September 2018

Sunday, 20 May 2018

Sunday, 22 April 2018

2018 London Marathon

Race


10th London and officially the hottest.

3:07:50


Sunday, 4 March 2018

MK 20

Race No
Just a training race this one - 2:22:30 - right on target.

Progressive training run, 5 at 7:30, 5 at 7:15, 5 at 7:00 and 5 at 6:45






Sunday, 11 February 2018

2018 Stamford 30k

Race No

5th MV50



25th edition of this event.


















Intentionally slower race today, with a shift in my long distance training i.e. keeping the longer ones slower.




I do appear to be way behind where I was this time last year but I'm still not that worried. Today was about training. Its was cold but the wind was quite harsh at times.

Stamford Website

Race Results

Sunday, 21 January 2018

2018 Folksworth 15

Race No


1st MV50 - Yay, and only for the second time, last one being Doug Anderson 5k. A nice set of crystal glasses as the prize (glad I didn't get the kettle - yep they were some of the prizes!).








Very much a race of two halves as they would say. First lap cold bt as we started the second lap the snow started and it became very cold and bleak. Now, I've run Folksworth in some pretty grim conditions before but I can say the second lap here mus almost have been the worst.

It was never a race to see how fast I could run but as with previous years a training run at marathon pace - I managed just that.



Folksworth Website

Official Results

Previous running
2017
2016
2015
2012
2011
2004
2003
1999
1998
1997

Saturday, 28 October 2017

parkrun - Northampton

Run with Lauren and Stuart.

Another pb for Lauren, first time under 29 minutes, so very well done there.

Sunday, 8 October 2017

2017 Great Eastern Run

Race No. -

 Just two weeks after a marathon and one week after a half I find myself working hard for my 1:24:55; Although last weeks half was not full-on it was still two and a quarter hours on my feet - the week after a marathon. I think that was a great result.

Working hard

Sunday, 1 October 2017

2017 Redcar Half Marathon

2017 Redcar Half Marathon

Race No.

Second race run with Lauren, and just a week after a marathon, it might have been slower than I would normally run (nearly 4 m/mile) , but it was still two and a quarter hours on my feet and I was really tired at the end; added to which we had to travel home.


And.... a parkrun pb for Lauren the day before!


Saturday, 30 September 2017

parkrun - Tees Barrage

parkrun number -


A PB for Lauren, although she will insist on racing the first mile too fast - way too fast. She'll learn, maybe.

Sunday, 24 September 2017

2017 Berlin Marathon

 No story - just some photos of a great weekend.








Official time,

2:29:46  - wow, I just got away with that

Sunday, 10 September 2017

Wednesday, 26 July 2017

Wednesday, 7 June 2017

Wednesday, 12 April 2017

Sunday, 22 January 2017

Folksworth 15

Sunday 22nd January

10th running since 1997

And another Teeshirt.


Chip Time - 1:38:21

Position - 34/584, 5/71 MV50

Results by www.whatsmytime.co.uk

Previous running

2016
2015
2012
2011
2004
2003
1999
1998
1997

Wednesday, 28 December 2016

Tuesday, 27 December 2016

Long run with 1m at target MP


Pre marathon training starts here then, 1mile at target marathon pace feels strangely hard - how on earth am I to attempt 26.2 of these?

 Todays run by Strava

Wednesday, 30 November 2016

Sunday, 9 October 2016

2016 Great Eastern Run


Race Number

9th running of this race.

This is how it was run

Previous years
  • 2015
  • 2014
  • 2013
  • 2012
  • 2011
  • 2010
  • 2009
  • 2007

Friday, 23 September 2016

Cycle fro AJ's

 Last one of the year - and last one from Higham shop

Relive

Sunday, 24 January 2016

Folksworth 15

Sunday 24th January

Decent training run. Even managed 2nd place MV 50.



F15 Website 

Wednesday, 20 January 2016

1k, 1k, 1m, 1k, 1k, 1m, 1k, 1k

Along the Embankment; off 5mins for the 1ks and 8 mins for the 1 miles.

Wednesday, 13 January 2016

KKS x5

Not bad - not the best night but a good solid workout.



Date13/01/2016

5x1 loop (1.6m)2 mins recoveryPace (m/m)
110:392:006:39
210:172:006:26
310:162:006:25
410:082:006:20
510:102:006:21
Total51:30

Average10:18
6:26

Monday, 11 January 2016

2x 4m at MP



Date11/01/2016

12
17:327:11
26:406:38
37:007:16
45:385:35
Total26:4926:39
Distance3.93.9
Avg m/m6:536:50

Well, just slightly over intended marathon pace but with over 14 weeks to go that was a good run. Difficult one to come on Wednesday.

https://www.strava.com/activities/468333010

And a suffer score of 114 and 19 in the red - that'll be for the hills since we didn't need too much threshold running.

Sunday, 3 January 2016

3 Counties Cross Country - Bedford

Wasn't going to do any cross country races this season but having been asked I found no reason to say no. This is a particularly tough course and is much longer than the usual races. It's was the last one of this season and the first to be held at Sharnbrook Upper School.

Main issue for me was lack of racing - it seems that I've forgotten how to race. It was a hard course, some hills but the rutted tracks and paths, along with significant amounts of bad weather made the going difficult; same for everyone though.

First three miles my lungs were at bursting point  but after that it seemed to get better - tried to push on but there was nothing more to give today.

61st place - can't ever remember being that far back. Never mind, there's always another time and that's one race more to being race-fit.

Todays suffer score  - 111 with 43 points in the red.

Wednesday, 23 December 2015

Bondarenko x 6


A Christmas present from the coaches to the group.


6 Sets400@5k400@ mara300@ 1500300@ mara200@ 800200@ mara100 sprint100@ mara
185.7100.567.681.441.955.221.527.2
289.0108.065.581.743.253.820.128.7
391.6100.065.378.542.951.819.927.500:02:46
490.8103.869.974.842.653.321.625.4
592.2105.466.076.042.652.721.026.000:02:29
688.7103.465.075.639.353.519.227.5
Average Pace89.7103.566.678.042.153.420.627.1
Required Time87.3101.462.576.039.750.718.025.3
Pace








6 Sets400@5k400@ mara300@ 1500300@ mara200@ 800200@ mara100 sprint100@ mara
15:456:446:037:175:377:245:467:18
25:587:155:517:185:487:135:237:42
36:096:425:507:015:456:575:207:23
46:056:586:156:415:437:095:486:49
56:117:045:546:485:437:045:386:58
65:576:565:496:465:167:115:097:23










Average Pace6:016:565:576:585:397:105:317:15
Average Pace5:516:485:356:485:196:484:506:48